gnidrologs (![[info]](http://klab.lv/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gnidrologs) rakstīja,@ 2018-08-03 22:00:00 |
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"He who controls the language controls the masses" - (((Saul Alinsky))).
What we are witnessing in Washington and across
the nation and world, as in Oceania, is the manipulation
of language in the service of a broader socio-political
agenda that is dependent on socio-psychological
engineering. And the movement’s cheerleaders aren’t
shy about saying so. “Words matter,” Liz Watson, a
senior adviser at the National Women’s Law Center,
said of Washington State’s code revisions (Reuters, Apr.
22). “This is an important step in changing hearts and
minds.” In other words, the goal wasn’t so much to
change the language to reflect contemporary customs,
but to customize the language to effect social change,
by redirecting the affections (heart) and thoughts
(minds) of the masses.
Ms. Watson eerily echoes O’Brien, a party
apparatchik from Orwell’s novel, who explains the
objective of Oceania’s linguistic program: “We convert
the [resister], we capture his inner mind, we reshape
him…. We bring him over to our side, not in
appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul…. It is
intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist
anywhere in the world, however secret or powerless it
may be. “
What we are witnessing in Washington and across
the nation and world, as in Oceania, is the manipulation
of language in the service of a broader socio-political
agenda that is dependent on socio-psychological
engineering. And the movement’s cheerleaders aren’t
shy about saying so. “Words matter,” Liz Watson, a
senior adviser at the National Women’s Law Center,
said of Washington State’s code revisions (Reuters, Apr.
22). “This is an important step in changing hearts and
minds.” In other words, the goal wasn’t so much to
change the language to reflect contemporary customs,
but to customize the language to effect social change,
by redirecting the affections (heart) and thoughts
(minds) of the masses.
Ms. Watson eerily echoes O’Brien, a party
apparatchik from Orwell’s novel, who explains the
objective of Oceania’s linguistic program: “We convert
the [resister], we capture his inner mind, we reshape
him…. We bring him over to our side, not in
appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul…. It is
intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist
anywhere in the world, however secret or powerless it
may be. “
